An Arctic fox found wandering in an NW Portland park captured the hearts of the community - but also raised concerns over ...

As the stars slowly reveal themselves, we hear the elephants chewing some 20 feet away. Even in the dark, I can make out their shapes: 53-year-old Kummoon is smaller despite being two decades ...

When I read the email from the Oakland Zoo last month saying it had retired its single remaining African elephant, a 30-year-old 15,000-pound bull named Osh, to the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee ...

Credit: Oregon Zoo/Cover Images Oregon Zoo’s biggest residents got into the Halloween spirit in October at the Zoo’s annual Squishing of the Squash event. The giant mammals got their tusks and trunks ...

Elephants in Nigeria are threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching and illegal ivory trade, human-elephant conflict and climate change. These issues are pushing them to the brink of ...

A 56-year-old elephant diagnosed with an “incurable” disease was euthanized at an Arkansas zoo. Photo by Kristin Grove, Little Rock Zoo Seven years ago, an elephant at the Arkansas zoo ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Little Rock Zoo officials announced Monday that Sophie the elephant has died. Zoo officials said that she was euthanized after being placed into hospice from complications ...

The zoo says at no time were the bonobos outside their habitat and "animal care staff and great apes do not occupy shared spaces." The zoo says it is reviewing the details to understand what led ...

Five elephants in a Colorado zoo could someday sue for their freedom, if the state’s Supreme Court sides with an animal rights group and declares them “persons” under the law. But first ...

The Woodland Park Zoo said animal keepers found Shila dead this morning in her habitat. "At 14, Shila was a geriatric wolf; in human care, the median life expectancy for gray wolves is 11 to 12 ...